BIOL 2030

Kittleson is very entertaining, approachable, and caring for his students. You won't find a professor much better. His tests can be kinda tricky though and require studying both of lecture material and the textbook.

Kittleson's midterms were harder than expected. The class was interesting and very hands on.

This class was awesome. I did not find his tests all that tricky at all. Just study your lecture notes and book notes in depth and you will do fine. Once you understand the material, the stuff that you do in lab makes so much more sense and becomes extremely interesting.

This class sucks. The labs themselves are very easy to comprehend, but clicker questions make attendance mandatory and Kittlesen's midterm/final is unreasonably tricky and difficult compared to what he teaches and what is done in lab. I'm seeing the trend here that the UVa Biology Dept is a real piece of work.

My TA wasn't the best. However, if you have a good TA, you should be fine. Kittlesen is very tricky with midterms and clicker questions; you have to really know the material and also interpret what he's asking.

If you are not a pre-health student or a Bio major, don't bother. This class is hard. Difficult clicker questions (which essentially make lab lecture mandatory), ridiculously tricky tests, and little guidance make this class a huge pain. Kittlesen is enthusiastic, funny, and of great help, but that doesn't change the fact that this Intro lab is way harder that it should be. 1 midterm, a final, clicker questions, and a long (8+ pages) lab report make up your grade. Getting an A is possible, although the work needed rivals most 300 level courses.

Very, very, VERY difficult class. If not a bio major or pre-med student. DO. NOT. TAKE.

this class is just annoying. the actual lab part is really, but the lab manual questions are extremely repetitive and obvious. the midterm is tricky, just like his class tests, which is bothersome when you know all the material.

This is one of the more irritating lab lectures you'll ever endure, since you usually end up sitting in CHEM402 at 7PM, listing to somebody be confused about PCR...but you can't leave because Kittlesen hasn't asked the last clicker question or given you the homework assignment. As for the lab itself, it's not so bad. You spend the entire semester doing an ELISA, a GFP prep, or some variation of PCR. The assignments from the lab manual are brainless, but BEWARE of the midterms...Kittlesen tries to stick you, and he does a good job.

Biol 203 was a time-consuming class. The hour-long pre-lab lectures were painful because the clicker questions were evil and people's questions rather drew out the hour. The lab itself concentrates on molecular biology laboratory techniques such as ELISA, pGLO bacterial transformation, RFLP and plasmid mapping, and PCR. It was nice learning how to do the techniques, but the midterm and final were very tricky. As for weekly stuff, you have to keep up with the lab notebook and do the lab manual exercises.